Hinged buckle



No. 625,233. Patented May l6, I899. J. B. YOUNG.

HINGED BUCKLE.

(Application filed. Apr. 28, 1897. Benwed Nov. 10, 1398.)

(No Model.)

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, ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE RYERSON YOUNG, OF BOLIVAR, MISSOURI.

'HINGED BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 625,233, dated May 16, 1899. Application filed April 23, 1897. Renewed November 10, 1898. Serial No. 696,031. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, JEssE RYERSON YOUNG, of Bolivar, in the county of Polk and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hinged Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

lily invention relates to that form of buckle in which a metal keeper is formed with the buckle-frame to receive the perforated end of the strap which fastens onto the buckletongue. l/Vith this form of buckle there is in machine-made work considerable inconvenience and expense involved in sewing it to the strap or rein for the reason that the rigid metal keeper is in the way of the needle and presser-foot of the sewing-machine, so that it necessitates the sewing by hand of several inches of the strap at the end Where the buckle is fastened to the doubled and stitched end of the strap. My invention is designed to overcome this difficulty and to enable the buckle to be entirely attached to the doubled end of the strap by machinestitching; and to this end it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the buckle, as will be hereinafter fully described.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the two parts of my hinged buckle detached. Fig. 2 is a similar view of them connected. Fig. 3 shows the position of parts when under the sewing-machine presser-foot. Fig. 4 shows the normal position of the parts after the buckle has been sewed on and the keeper turned down.

A represents the buckle proper, to whose axial bar a the tongue (1 is hung.

Bis the hinged keeper, Whose side branches have at their forward ends concave bearings b and lips b, which concave bearings are adapted to receive the portions a a of the buckle and be permanently secured around the same by bending over the lips I) b, as seen in Fig. 2. The side parts of the keeper B are curved upwardly and connected at their rear ends by a cross-bar O, lying along the upper edge and elevated a little distance abovethe plane of the strap, so as to receive beneath it the free end of the buckled strap, and another cross-bar D is arranged a little below the level of bar C and about the middle of the side pieces and provided with a rivethole. This cross-bar D has an open space in front of it to allow the strap to pass under it and then over the axial bar of the buckle.

When this buckle is to be attached to the strap or rein, the end of the strap to be sewed is folded around the axial bar (6 and the hinged keeper is folded back over the buckle proper, as shown in Fig. 3, in which it will be seen the sewing-machine needle and presser-foot may proceed with the machine-stitching all the way up to axial bar without hindrance or embarrassment. After the stitching is thus conveniently and economically finished without loss of time or expense of hand-stitching the hinged keeper is folded back again over the strap and a rivet r is put through the cross-bar D and the doubled portion of the strap to hold the keeper down to its place and aid in fastening the strap, as shown in Fig. 4.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with the buckle A having cross-bar a and tongue (1; of the keeper-frame having upwardly-curved side pieces having separate and independent front ends provided with seats 12-1) and flanges or lips b b adapted to be folded around the cross-bar a of the buckle, and having about midway the length of said side pieces a perforated cross-bar D, with an open space in front, and at their extreme rear end behind the cross-bar D and in a higher plane, the keeper cross-bar O,- substantially as and for the purpose described.

JESSE RYERSON YOUNG.

Witnesses:

FRANK S. SEA, H. SHELLENBERGER. 

